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the inspection of a specimen alive or dead.” The result of 
the combined exertions of Messrs. Savage and Wilson was not 
only the obtaining of a very full account of the habits of this 
new creature, but a still more important service to science, 
the enabling the excellent American anatomist already men- 
tioned, Professor Wyman, to describe, from ample materials, 
the distinctive osteological characters of the new form. This 
animal was called by the natives of the Gaboon “ Engé-ena,” 
a name obviously identical with the “ Ingena” of Bowdich ; 
and Dr. Savage arrived at the conviction that this last 
discovered of all the great Apes was the long-sought ‘ Pongo’ 
of Battell. 
The justice of this conclusion, indeed, is beyond doubt— 
for not only does the ‘Engé-ena’ agree with Battell’s “‘greater 
monster” in its hollow eyes, its great stature, and its dun or 
iron-grey colour, but the only other man-like Ape which in- 
habits these latitudes—the Chimpanzee—is at once identified, 
by its smaller size, as the “ lesser monster,” and is excluded 
from any possibility of being the ‘ Pongo,’ by the fact that it 
is black and not dun, to say nothing of the important cir- 
cumstance already mentioned that it still retams the name 
of ‘ Engeko,’ or ‘ Enché-eko,’ by which Battell knew it. 
In seeking for a specific name for the ‘Enge-ena,’ however, 
Dr. Savage wisely avoided the much misused ‘ Pongo’; but 
finding in the ancient Periplus of Hanno the word “Gorilla” 
applied to certain hairy savage people, discovered by the 
Carthaginian voyager in an island on the African coast, he 
attached the specific name “Gorilla” to his new ape, whence 
arises its present well-known appellation. But Dr. Savage, 
more cautious than some of his successors, by no means 
identifies his ape with Hanno’s ‘wild men” He merely says 
that the latter were “probably one of the species of the 
Orang ;” and I quite agree with M. Brullé, that there is no 
ground for identifying the modern ‘ Gorilla’ with that of the 
Carthaginian admiral. 
Since the memoir of Savage and Wyman was published, 
